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Teaching @WCU: A CFC Blog
Improve Student Note-Taking
A 2014 study by Mueller and Oppenheimer indicated that students who took notes in class with their computer performed more poorly than students who took notes by hand.
Engage
Faculty questions about student engagement are common across institutions and higher education. Educational researchers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists continue to learn new things about cognition, learning, and motivation, and some of those best resources...
Minimizing Disruptive Behaviors to Facilitate Student Learning
Minimizing disruptive behaviors to facilitate student learning by Jack Caldwell, John Hawes, and L. Scott Philyaw, PhD Effective classroom management is rarely part of our formal training as faculty members. Yet, we are still expected to respond to a variety of...